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[John Hall]

Old Briggs engine powered water/nitrogen pumps--glad to see them gone. 
Those things were a bear to get cranked, always. Really hated to be left 
in the rain. When you got the running they were so worn out they 
wouldn't prime half the time, would have to pour water in the nozzle and 
"walk" it down the hose to the pump. My family was just too cheap to fix 
those things--and we had 3 of them!! All our spray water was pumped out 
of ponds. The nitrogen was pumped from a dedicated trailer--it was 
filled from a 6,000 gallon tank with an electric pump.

John Hall

On 10/29/2019 11:05 PM, Greg Hass wrote:
> Have been tossing this around for quite a while and would like list 
> opinions from those who have farmed or been around the farm.  What 
> machines or implements are you glad to see disappear or be used much 
> less than before? While I could list several the one that stands out 
> in my mind by far is the spring tooth harrow. While still being used 
> some, and while they do a real good job of leveling, they were also a 
> real pain in the a$$. Growing up into my 20's thats all we had and all 
> they did was plug.  We had probably the worst brand ever made, a Case 
> harrow.  It had 2 runners between every section and if it saw a 
> cornstalk 50 feet away it would start plugging before you got there.  
> In either corn ground or sod the results were the same.  We always 
> worked our fields what we called double kitty corner. In a 20 acre 
> field, we would have to stop at all four corners and unplug the harrow 
> by hand. We used a IH Super C and 3 section harrow (8 foot) and if not 
> plowing we had a four section we pulled with an IH 350. In later years 
> we bought an IH 401 harrow and 3 section equaled 12 feet and pulled it 
> with an IH 504.  We though we had the world by the tail as it plugged 
> much less but that was soon to end.  That harrow did not have 
> replaceable ends; the next years model did, but my dad being stupidly 
> cheap would not get new teeth but cut an extra notch for the handle 
> allowing it to dig deeper but with the tooth being shorter, cut the 
> clearance making it plug as bad as the old Case harrow.  For the past 
> many years we have used a field cultivator which almost never plugs 
> and I have no desire to go back to a spring tooth harrow.
>       Greg Hass
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